On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:59:11PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:35:38 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:23:07 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > Suddenly no sound. Alsamixer shows it is using the motherboard > > > > soundcard and the speakers are connected to the Creative Labs pci card. > > > > > > [...] > > The problem might be that snd-via82xx gets loaded first and assigned > index 0. This would block snd-emu10k1 from having that index and ALSA > might not handle this situation gracefully. Loading firmware is another > thing that can go wrong, although I would not expect to see the EMU10k1 > module listed at all in that case. > > Try to add the following two lines to /etc/modprobe.d/sound: > > alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx > options snd-via82xx index=1 > > Then reboot and check if /proc/asound/cards lists the EMU10k1. > > Thanks Florian, this fixed the problem - Tom
For the record I also tried Nigel's idea of adding install snd_via82xx /bin/true to /etc/modprobe.d/sound but this did nothing (perhaps because he used an underscore instead of a hyphen?) - Tom > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]